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10:17, September 15, 2008 |
An explosion rocked a public market in a southern Philippine town in Sarangani province on Sunday noon, local media reported.
No casualties have been reported so far as market vendors in Kiamba town were off around noon time, local news network GMA Newssaid.
The report quoted the town mayor as saying that the blast was likely caused by an improvised explosive device.
The authority suspected the blast was planned by radical members of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), the country's largest Muslim rebel group against whom the Philippine government has stepped up the offensives after a decade-long peace progress faltered last month.
Another explosion occurred at another public market in Isulan town of neighboring Sultan Kudarat at predawn Tuesday. Another explosive was discovered by government troops planted near a bakery in another southern Philippine city this week.
Military officials said local rebels had a motive of sowing terror by planting the explosives in the public.
Source: Xinhua
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